CNN | Image of PM's aide kicking protester stokes anger over Turkey mine fire CNN Soma, Turkey (CNN) -- The image of an aide to Turkey's Prime Minister kicking a man protesting the mine disaster that has claimed nearly 300 lives has prompted outrage -- and has become a symbol of the anger felt against the government. The incident ... Turkey swept by protests as anger grows over fatal mine explosion Turkey outraged as PM's aide kicks mine disaster protester Turkey's Coal Problem |
Washington Post (blog) | The most powerful photo from a day of tragedy in Turkey Washington Post (blog) More than 230 people have died after a coal mine explosion in Soma, a small Turkish town of about 70,000 people that is nearly 150 miles from Istanbul. According to Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, 787 workers were inside the mine when an ... |
Burials, Rage and Political Fallout in Turkey Mine Disaster New York Times SOMA, Turkey — As the death toll from Turkey's worst mining accident rose on Thursday, hundreds of mourners attended a mass burial for at least 30 miners in a cemetery here, as gravediggers toiled to make room for possibly hundreds more. |
Turkey mining accident toll nears 300 as anger at PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... CBS News SOMA, Turkey -- Rescue teams recovered eight more victims of Turkey's worst mining accident on Thursday, raising the death toll to 282 in a disaster that has thrown Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's presidential ambitions off stride. Hundreds of ... |
Strikes, Tear Gas as Turkey Mourns Soma Mine Victims NBCNews.com More blackened bodies were pulled from the Soma coal mine Thursday, taking the death toll to 283 as Turkey launched three days of national mourning amid mounting anger over the disaster. As hopes faded for 141 others still trapped more than one mile ... |
CBC.ca | Turkey coal-mine explosion deaths rise to 282 CBC.ca Women sang improvised ballads about the departed over freshly dug graves Thursday, even as backhoes carved row upon row of graves into the dirt and hearses lined up outside the cemetery with more victims of Turkey's worst mining disaster. Images from ... |
Grim news underground The Economist (blog) The Soma accident will focus new attention on Turkey's dismal coal-mining safety record. At least 3,000 miners have died in accidents since 1941. "Eighty per cent of these could have been avoided if necessary safety measures had been taken," fumed ... |
The Guardian | Explosion near Syria-Turkey border crossing kills dozens The Guardian An explosion near a border crossing between Syria and Turkey killed as many as 29 people and wounded many others, an activist group monitoring the Syrian civil war said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion occurred ... Syria conflict: Deadly blast near Turkey border crossing Deadly blast hits Syria-Turkey border Explosion kills 43 at Syrian border with Turkey: monitoring group |
Turkey mine disaster: grief turns to rage as hopes of finding survivors fade The Guardian Turkey is convulsed with grief and swelling anger after an explosion in a coalmine in the west of the country left at least 282 people dead, though there are fears that the bodies of scores more need to be recovered. The accident at Soma, in the ... |
BBC News | Turkey coal mine disaster: Desperate search at Soma pit BBC News Dozens escaped the pit in Soma, 450km (280 miles) from Ankara, but officials say more than 100 are unaccounted for. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived at the mine after announcing three days of mourning for what will be Turkey's most deadly ... |